Yoast has entered a partnership with…
Dan Knauss
Yoast has entered a partnership with SEMrush. SEMrush is a large provider of SEO tools and powers some features that are already found in Yoast SEO 15.1. 🤝
I spotted this tweet from Joost…
Dan Knauss
I spotted this tweet from Joost de Valk sharing research from a post by eMarketer where they found signs eCommerce is "jumping ahead by two years" because of COVID. 🏃♂️ 🏬 The article is worth a read, but I'm also…
Lainey Feingold makes the case that…
Dan Knauss
Lainey Feingold makes the case that the proposed Online Accessibility Act legislation working through the US Congress is bad for digital inclusion. Right now disabled people can now file lawsuits about websites and apps that aren't accessible to them, but…
Joe Casabona shares his landing page…
Dan Knauss
Joe Casabona shares his landing page checklist which includes the essentials: headline + text, 2 CTAs, a bio + photo, trust logos, testimonials, long-form text, an email subscription form (or special content in exchange for an email address), and FAQs.…
Here is a nice plugin from…
Dan Knauss
Here is a nice plugin from Kailey Lampert that checks for the existence of "do not publish" in the post title and stops the post from being published if that text is found. 🙅♀️
Neale Van Fleet shows off a…
Dan Knauss
Neale Van Fleet shows off a nice trick for making a realistic motion blur in CSS in between transitions.
Sucuri has found some malware that…
Dan Knauss
Sucuri has found some malware that can disable security plugins to avoid detection. 😨 This is really devious! Luke Leal explains: "If a user tries to reactivate one of the disabled security plugins, [the Malware] will momentarily appear to activate…
Roel Magdaleno has created his first…
Dan Knauss
Roel Magdaleno has created his first npm CLI command for getting statistics about plugins and themes at WordPress.org. 📈
Great Twitter thread here from Chris…
Dan Knauss
Great Twitter thread here from Chris Herd on lessons learned from speaking to over 1,000 companies over the past 6 months about their plans for remote work. 👩💻 Just one sample: "Headquarters are finished: companies will cut their commercial office…
If you have ever had a…
Dan Knauss
If you have ever had a problem with dates and MySQL, then you might have had a WTF MySQL moment. 🤯
Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but…
Dan Knauss
Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but insightful take on "the open source paradox," which is "the proportionality between the money people give you for coding something, and the level of demand for the quality they can claim to have about…
Leonardo Losoviz has shared his discovery…
Dan Knauss
Leonardo Losoviz has shared his discovery of Rector and transpiling in PHP. 🐘 A transpiler is “a type of translator that takes the source code of a program written in a programming language as its input and produces an equivalent…
📅 Conference and Event Updates WooSesh…
Dan Knauss
📅 Conference and Event Updates WooSesh took place this week on October 13 and 14th. The videos will be available soon for WPSession members. WP Agency Summit also happened this week from October 12 to 16th. Videos are available until…
Might as well go for the gusto?
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy has submitted a ticket to make a change on the WordPress hosting page: I would like to update the final sentence in the second paragraph. If you don’t need the flexibility of a full web…
Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform…
Dan Knauss
Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress. It includes improvements in speed for sites that might be slowed down a bit by plugins or hosting limitations effectively creating a "zero-config edge HTML caching solution." Garrett Galow explains: "Our…
